Z S Strother
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 130558 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Z S Strother |
| PRENOMES | Z S |
| SOBRENOME | Strother |
| ASSINATURA | STROTHER Z S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Africa Center |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
African Masks and Emotions
Dancing with Smoke
In honor of Mujinga Tanga AngéliqueIt is striking how the language of trauma is circulating across the social spectrum in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Grief must always be driven inwards.2 Artist Géraldine Tobe, inspired by her grandmother, Mujinga Tanga Angélique, to believe that art can serve society, takes trauma as her subject, as in her wide-ranging 2024 exhibition Création Sans Visages. Sur les traces…
Alternative curated by Jean Kamba
In Kinshasa, in 2023, the topic that kept coming up in discussions on everything from the arts to agriculture was how to build a “nonextractivist” economy. Senator Didier Mumengi Tshikudi decried a situation in which a renowned artist such as Chéri Samba had become a “resource” akin to copper and cobalt, mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and manufactured abroad into a commodity out of reach of most Congolese. In responding to th…
Forensic Art History
Iconoclasms in Africa
This article demonstrates that a long history of iconoclastic struggles exists in numerous countries of sub-Saharan Africa and extends into the present. Exploring a range of motives and messages, I
Iconoclasms as sites for the production of knowledge
Masques et mémoire du Congo
Les iconoclasmes en Afrique
Il est temps de reconnaître que les monuments et les œuvres d’art périssent souvent de mort violente en Afrique, qu’ils soient brûlés, enterrés, brisés ou jetés à l’eau. Bien que richement illustré pendant la période coloniale, l’iconoclasme est profondément ancré dans l’histoire du continent, et ce de façon continue, comme le montrent les études de cas puisés en Afrique orientale et centrale, en Éthiopie et en Afrique du Sud. Cet essai passe en …
Authentically African
Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture is an important and timely book given French President Emmanuel Macron's declaration in November 2017 that he was committed to “temporary or permanent restitution of African heritage to Africa” (Dagen 2017). Restitution has a history in Africa and one that both politicians and museums would be wise to study. Already in 1973, Mobutu Sese Seko launched a demand before t…
Meteoric Realities
This review examines the fourth edition of the Lubumbashi Biennale (October 9 to November 8, 2015). Toma Muteba Luntumbue, the artistic director, and cocurator Daniella Géo assembled a strong corpus of socially engaged works of art in phase with Édouard Glissant’s conception of “meteoric realities,” which served as the curatorial rationale for the event. The review studies how the organizers wrestled creatively with the challenges of infrastructu…
Toma Muteba Luntumbue
Toma Muteba Luntumbue, the artistic director of the 4th Biennale of Lubumbashi (October 9 to November 8, 2015), speaks of his goals for the exhibition and his collaboration with cocurator Daniella Géo. Drawing on the “relation politics” of Edouard Glissant, he explains that they sought work by artists who challenge the “tyranny of immediacy” imposed by global capitalism. Whereas earlier editions had focused on photography and video, Luntumbue and…
Meteoric Realities
Research Article| November 01 2017 Meteoric Realities: The Fourth Biennale of Lubumbashi Z. S. Strother Z. S. Strother Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 176–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Z. S. Strother; Meteoric Realities: The Fourth Biennale of Lubumbashi. Nka 1 November 2017; 2017 (41): 176–187…
"Breaking juju," breaking trade
Previous articleNext article Free“Breaking juju,” breaking trade: Museums and the culture of iconoclasm in southern NigeriaZ. S. StrotherZ. S. Strother Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreFor Francesco Pellizzi, with gratitude and affection for his support of young scholars and for his rich co…
Art with Fight in It
With a contribution from Christophe Gudijiga and Sindani KianguThis article investigates a Kwilu Pende statue of a Belgian colonial officer (Fig. 1) through the combined perspectives of historical events, an unusual wealth of relevant documentation, and technical analysis. Its origin stems from the chance encounter now more than forty years ago by which Herbert Weiss, a political scientist and student of protest movements in the Congo, was able t…
A terrifying mimesis
Looking for Africa in Carl Einstein's Negerplastik
Museum for central africa (tervuren, belgium) eo. 0. 0. 19845, detail
Iconoclash
À la recherche de l'Afrique dans Negerplastik de Carl Einstein
La publication de Negerplastik de Carl Einstein constitua, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire, l'acte fondateur de l'histoire de l'art africain. Ce texte, qui proposait 119 photographies habilement présentées afin de permettre des comparaisons formelles, contribua à légitimer les catégories de « sculpture nègre » ou d'« art africain ». Einstein ne citait pourtant aucune étude contemporaine sur l'Afrique. Il s'appuyait plutôt sur un mélange de diffé…
Léon de Sousberghe, S.J
June 01 2007 Léon de Sousberghe, S.J.: 1903–2006 Z.S. Strother Z.S. Strother Z.S. Strother is professor of African art history in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and author of Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende (1998). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Z.S. Strother Z.S. Strother is professor of African art history…
Forms of Wonderment
Masken
Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards
African Works
Art That Heals
This text demonstrates the difference between Westerners' passive admiration of representational images and the intense interaction with art characteristic of native African and American cultures. Westerners may have extended the use of the art-image beyond the purely representational, but in Ethiopia the power transmitted from art to believers is actually used to heal. Art that Heals examines a variety of colourful objects: church frescos from t…
Ethiopia
À la recherche de l'Afrique dans Negerplastik de Carl Einstein
La publication de Negerplastik de Carl Einstein constitua, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire, l'acte fondateur de l'histoire de l'art africain. Ce texte, qui proposait 119 photographies habilement présentées afin de permettre des comparaisons formelles, contribua à légitimer les catégories de « sculpture nègre » ou d'« art africain ». Einstein ne citait pourtant aucune étude contemporaine sur l'Afrique. Il s'appuyait plutôt sur un mélange de diffé…
Inventing Masks
A terrifying mimesis
Iconoclasms in Africa
This article demonstrates that a long history of iconoclastic struggles exists in numerous countries of sub-Saharan Africa and extends into the present. Exploring a range of motives and messages, I
Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts
A partir des exemples de la mascarade pende zairoise « Gindogo (gi)tshi? » et de la serie televisee « Star Strek », l'A. montre d'une part la relation entre la culture populaire et la tradition, et d'autre part l'innovation necessaire face aux reactions du public et l'evolution des significations
Inscribing the Mask
Iconoclasms as sites for the production of knowledge
Toma Muteba Luntumbue
Toma Muteba Luntumbue, the artistic director of the 4th Biennale of Lubumbashi (October 9 to November 8, 2015), speaks of his goals for the exhibition and his collaboration with cocurator Daniella Géo. Drawing on the “relation politics” of Edouard Glissant, he explains that they sought work by artists who challenge the “tyranny of immediacy” imposed by global capitalism. Whereas earlier editions had focused on photography and video, Luntumbue and…
"Breaking juju," breaking trade
Previous articleNext article Free“Breaking juju,” breaking trade: Museums and the culture of iconoclasm in southern NigeriaZ. S. StrotherZ. S. Strother Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreFor Francesco Pellizzi, with gratitude and affection for his support of young scholars and for his rich co…
Art with Fight in It
With a contribution from Christophe Gudijiga and Sindani KianguThis article investigates a Kwilu Pende statue of a Belgian colonial officer (Fig. 1) through the combined perspectives of historical events, an unusual wealth of relevant documentation, and technical analysis. Its origin stems from the chance encounter now more than forty years ago by which Herbert Weiss, a political scientist and student of protest movements in the Congo, was able t…
Looking for Africa in Carl Einstein's Negerplastik
Museum for central africa (tervuren, belgium) eo. 0. 0. 19845, detail
Gabama a Gingungu and the Secret History of Twentieth-Century Art
L'A. retrace le role du sculpteur Gabama a Gingungu (1890-1965) dans l'histoire de l'art moderne des Pende du Congo et tente de restituer la dimension de l'autorite d'auteur et de l'individualite dans l'art negre. Il examine d'abord, d'un point de vue general, la place et la fonction du sculpteur dans la societe Pende precoloniale. Il retrace ensuite les apports essentiels de Gabama a Gingungu pour l'art Pende : creation d'un nouveau style de mas…
Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts
A partir des exemples de la mascarade pende zairoise « Gindogo (gi)tshi? » et de la serie televisee « Star Strek », l'A. montre d'une part la relation entre la culture populaire et la tradition, et d'autre part l'innovation necessaire face aux reactions du public et l'evolution des significations
Inscribing the Mask
Inventing Masks
Inventing Masks
1: The Process of Invention 1: Dancing the Masks: Introduction to the World of Pende Masquerading 2: Who Invents Masks Anyway? 3: Costuming for Change 4: Birth of an Atelier, Birth of a Style 5: Pende Theories of Physiognomy and Gender 6: Learning to Read Faces, Learning to Read Masks Coda Pt. 2: The History of Invention 7: A Precolonial Pende Art History? 8: Masks in the Colonial Period Conclusion: The Role of the Audience in Invention and Reinv…
Gabama a Gingungu and the Secret History of Twentieth-Century Art
L'A. retrace le role du sculpteur Gabama a Gingungu (1890-1965) dans l'histoire de l'art moderne des Pende du Congo et tente de restituer la dimension de l'autorite d'auteur et de l'individualite dans l'art negre. Il examine d'abord, d'un point de vue general, la place et la fonction du sculpteur dans la societe Pende precoloniale. Il retrace ensuite les apports essentiels de Gabama a Gingungu pour l'art Pende : creation d'un nouveau style de mas…
Ethiopia Photographed
Art That Heals
This text demonstrates the difference between Westerners' passive admiration of representational images and the intense interaction with art characteristic of native African and American cultures. Westerners may have extended the use of the art-image beyond the purely representational, but in Ethiopia the power transmitted from art to believers is actually used to heal. Art that Heals examines a variety of colourful objects: church frescos from t…
Ethiopia
African Works
Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards
Forms of Wonderment
Masken
Léon de Sousberghe, S.J
June 01 2007 Léon de Sousberghe, S.J.: 1903–2006 Z.S. Strother Z.S. Strother Z.S. Strother is professor of African art history in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and author of Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende (1998). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Z.S. Strother Z.S. Strother is professor of African art history…
À la recherche de l'Afrique dans Negerplastik de Carl Einstein
La publication de Negerplastik de Carl Einstein constitua, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire, l'acte fondateur de l'histoire de l'art africain. Ce texte, qui proposait 119 photographies habilement présentées afin de permettre des comparaisons formelles, contribua à légitimer les catégories de « sculpture nègre » ou d'« art africain ». Einstein ne citait pourtant aucune étude contemporaine sur l'Afrique. Il s'appuyait plutôt sur un mélange de diffé…
Iconoclash
Looking for Africa in Carl Einstein's Negerplastik
Museum for central africa (tervuren, belgium) eo. 0. 0. 19845, detail
A terrifying mimesis
Art with Fight in It
With a contribution from Christophe Gudijiga and Sindani KianguThis article investigates a Kwilu Pende statue of a Belgian colonial officer (Fig. 1) through the combined perspectives of historical events, an unusual wealth of relevant documentation, and technical analysis. Its origin stems from the chance encounter now more than forty years ago by which Herbert Weiss, a political scientist and student of protest movements in the Congo, was able t…
Meteoric Realities
This review examines the fourth edition of the Lubumbashi Biennale (October 9 to November 8, 2015). Toma Muteba Luntumbue, the artistic director, and cocurator Daniella Géo assembled a strong corpus of socially engaged works of art in phase with Édouard Glissant’s conception of “meteoric realities,” which served as the curatorial rationale for the event. The review studies how the organizers wrestled creatively with the challenges of infrastructu…
Toma Muteba Luntumbue
Toma Muteba Luntumbue, the artistic director of the 4th Biennale of Lubumbashi (October 9 to November 8, 2015), speaks of his goals for the exhibition and his collaboration with cocurator Daniella Géo. Drawing on the “relation politics” of Edouard Glissant, he explains that they sought work by artists who challenge the “tyranny of immediacy” imposed by global capitalism. Whereas earlier editions had focused on photography and video, Luntumbue and…
Meteoric Realities
Research Article| November 01 2017 Meteoric Realities: The Fourth Biennale of Lubumbashi Z. S. Strother Z. S. Strother Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 176–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Z. S. Strother; Meteoric Realities: The Fourth Biennale of Lubumbashi. Nka 1 November 2017; 2017 (41): 176–187…
"Breaking juju," breaking trade
Previous articleNext article Free“Breaking juju,” breaking trade: Museums and the culture of iconoclasm in southern NigeriaZ. S. StrotherZ. S. Strother Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreFor Francesco Pellizzi, with gratitude and affection for his support of young scholars and for his rich co…
Les iconoclasmes en Afrique
Il est temps de reconnaître que les monuments et les œuvres d’art périssent souvent de mort violente en Afrique, qu’ils soient brûlés, enterrés, brisés ou jetés à l’eau. Bien que richement illustré pendant la période coloniale, l’iconoclasme est profondément ancré dans l’histoire du continent, et ce de façon continue, comme le montrent les études de cas puisés en Afrique orientale et centrale, en Éthiopie et en Afrique du Sud. Cet essai passe en …
Authentically African
Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture is an important and timely book given French President Emmanuel Macron's declaration in November 2017 that he was committed to “temporary or permanent restitution of African heritage to Africa” (Dagen 2017). Restitution has a history in Africa and one that both politicians and museums would be wise to study. Already in 1973, Mobutu Sese Seko launched a demand before t…
Masques et mémoire du Congo
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